For other uses of this term, see Industry (disambiguation)

An industry is generally any grouping of businesses that share a common method of generating profits, such as the "music industry", the "automobile industry", or the "cattle industry". It is also used specifically to refer to an area of economic production focused on manufacturing which involves large amounts of capital investment before any profit can be realized, also called "heavy industry.". As-of 2004, Financial services is the largest industry (or category of industries) in the world in terms of earnings.

Industry in the second sense became a key sector of production in European and North American countries during the Industrial Revolution, which upset previous mercantile and feudal economies through many successive rapid advances in technology, such as the development of steam engines, power looms, and advances in large scale steel and coal production. Industrial countries then assumed a capitalist economic policy. Railroads and steam-powered ships began speedily integrating previously impossibly-distant world markets, enabling private companies to develop to then-unheard of size and wealth. Following the Industrial Revolution, perhaps a third of the world's economic output is derived from manufacturing industries—more than agriculture's share, but now less than that of the service sector.

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The worst kind of #socialism is that created by a #healthcare industry that owns enough mems of Congress to perpetuate a monopoly. #teaparty
cybold (cybold) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:52:02 -0000
The worst kind of #socialism is that created by a #healthcare industry that owns enough mems of Congress to perpetuate a monopoly. #teaparty
Domain Industry Rocked By Shill Auction Bidding Admission http://bit.ly/21Fezu
TejJoshipura (Tej Joshipura) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:48:00 -0000
Domain Industry Rocked By Shill Auction Bidding Admission http://bit.ly/21Fezu
@spanx gets spanked by the WSJ. "they make you look like a granny". So why is it a $750m industry?http://bit.ly/1SSPqT #fb
felfoldi (David Felfoldi) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:35:39 -0000
@spanx gets spanked by the WSJ. "they make you look like a granny". So why is it a $750m industry?http://bit.ly/1SSPqT #fb
Loan Home is changing the way an entire industry treats its clients by giving back - www.LoanHomeInc.biz
HomeLoanForLess (Affordable Loan Home) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:34:24 -0000
Loan Home is changing the way an entire industry treats its clients by giving back - www.LoanHomeInc.biz
@miyagi kinda like the old medical studies that said smoking wasn't that bad for you, sponsored by the tobacco industry.
yerrowman (Calvin Soh) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:34:06 -0000
@miyagi kinda like the old medical studies that said smoking wasn't that bad for you, sponsored by the tobacco industry.
Of course DeWayne is hosted by that creeping infection of the industry masquerading as a social networking "family". Just like Dexx Jones.
thekruezer (Damon Kruezer) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:32:13 -0000
Of course DeWayne is hosted by that creeping infection of the industry masquerading as a social networking "family". Just like Dexx Jones.

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